Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Plaque

ca. 1775 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plaque of biscuit (unglazed) white hard-paste porcelain; oval, and with a bas-relief of a vase decorated with a festoon of flowers delicately modelled in full relief; the vase takes the form of a classical urn with a domed cover surmounted by a cone-shaped finial, a rim moulded with acanthus-foliage above a narrow band of guilloche pattern, and a high foliated foot rising form a square plinth, which rests on a mass modelled to imitate a rock; the lower part of the body of the vase is fluted, and the festoons pass through two rings hanging on the rim; the plaque is mounted in a glazed turned-wood frame with a gilded hollow


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Biscuit (unglazed) white hard-porcelain, with turned and gilded wooden frame
Brief description
Plaque of biscuit (unglazed) white hard-paste porcelain mounted in a wooden frame, oval and with a bas-relief of a vase decorated with a festoon of flowers delicately modelled in full relief, Bristol porcelain factory, Bristol, ca. 1775
Physical description
Plaque of biscuit (unglazed) white hard-paste porcelain; oval, and with a bas-relief of a vase decorated with a festoon of flowers delicately modelled in full relief; the vase takes the form of a classical urn with a domed cover surmounted by a cone-shaped finial, a rim moulded with acanthus-foliage above a narrow band of guilloche pattern, and a high foliated foot rising form a square plinth, which rests on a mass modelled to imitate a rock; the lower part of the body of the vase is fluted, and the festoons pass through two rings hanging on the rim; the plaque is mounted in a glazed turned-wood frame with a gilded hollow
Dimensions
  • Including frame height: 22.9cm
  • Including frame width: 20.3cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
Given to Lady Charlotte Schreiber by Mr Edkins, Bristol, in 1884
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. I 780 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:739-1885

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Record createdFebruary 12, 2009
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